Top Trending Automation Testing Tools for Android and iOS in 2017

Nowadays, automation is an integral part of mobile software testing. The main aim in performing automation testing is continuous integration and deployment. This helps companies to minimize their production time and to increase product features and quality.

New tools are popping up every day for performing tests in both Android and iOS. Here are the top trending automation testing tools that you should keep an eye on in 2017.

It is a free(open source) web automated tool which can be used in performing tests on web applications. This tool is quite similar to HP Quick Test Pro. Selenium is a suite of software where each caters to different testing needs of an organization. The four components of Selenium are:

It is an open-source mobile test automation tool used for functional testing. This is a cross-platform automation tool for hybrid and native iOS, Android applications. Appium works like a server, same like in selenium server.

BugSee is a cloud-based tool that reports about bugs and crashes to the bug tracker. This tool is equivalent to a black box/flight recorder for mobile apps. It is supportive of apps built on React Native, Cordova but the SDK need to be embedded in Android and iOS apps.

Key Features

Can be used in all three phases of beta testing, live deployment and initial development

Allows you to report a bug directly from the app by just clicking on the screen shot

Reports include full events log, console logs, network traffic along with details of environment

Monitors and records the state of a system

This tool captures video of user interactions in live apps and helps in bug tracking

This is a cross-platform tool that performs real, interactive and functional tests. It works more efficiently in the case of automation testing of a simulator/ real hardware devices. This tool mainly consists of three components- IDE, Agents, Scripts.

Key Features

It is an open-source tool which is free to use

A complete and powerful testing tool

Simple and easy to learn

Supported on both phones and tablets

It supports looping concept i.e. any command can be looped using a CSV file

This is an open source testing framework for both Android and iOS. Calabash provides a separate library for automation of Android and iOS. It supports cucumber which helps you to express the behaviour of the app in basic English language executing Behaviour-Driven Development(BDD).

KIF is an open-source testing tool and iOS integration test framework developed by Square. It can be used to implement test cases with objective C. During work, the test cases are integrated and there is no need for additional servers.

Key Features

As it is similar to the KIF Grey Box Test Tool, you just need to know about the structure of the app that is to be tested

It uses the available accessibility labels from iOS for interacting with UI

It is a test automation framework that can be used in both native and hybrid UI of Android apps. Selendroid can be used on real devices and emulators. Even though it still uses Selenium infrastructure for the web, users can also use Selenium 2 to write test cases.

Key Features

It can create support sign of user interactions(swipe, drag, touch etc.) on devices

Support multi-Android API version

There is no need to modify an app while performing automated testing

Interact with multiple devices

Has built in Inspector tools that help you to identify the UI of the app under test

You can plu and unplug devices during the test without pausing/restarting, Selendroid automatically recognises devices

It is a black-box GUI test automation tool used for Android and iOS apps. Scripting on EggPlant is done by using a scripting language called Sense Talk. It helps to test your app faster and better with less effort for executing functional testing.

Key Features

It can interact with any device including mobile, desktop, tablet, server, and IoT devices

Test can be performed from any operating system- Windows, Mac OSX, Linux

No plug-in required

Easy integration with quality management software

Conclusion

As businesses are getting more complex, it gets difficult for individuals to keep up with the management of testing systems. Every software testing organization requires automated testing processes to accomplish consistent and speedy mobile software testing. With the help of such automated tools, testers are enabled to check the functioning of the apps on multiple devices.

Before you pick the right tool, proper research and identification of exact test cases are essential to meet your automation needs. So, to start with, its important to know about the latest trends happening in the industry and utlize them for mobile software application testing to get an efficient output.

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